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EU’s “European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro” presented

Belgrade, 8 July 2004

Head of the Serbian government’s office for EU accession Radmila Milivojevic and Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Serbia-Montenegro Geoffrey Barrett have presented the EU’s document called the “European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro,” adopted at a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers in June this year.

The document is based on conclusions of the Thessalonica Summit in June 2003, confirming a European future for the Western Balkans and proposing concrete mechanisms and programmes for cooperation. European Partnership is a mechanism which gave very positive results in the process of EU accession of the ten new members, outlining reform steps the candidate-countries had to take in order to get closer to EU standards.

The document contains a series of recommendations concerning the rule of law, human rights protection, minorities’ rights, regional cooperation, economy, judicial systems, and policing, and is divided into two categories: short-term ones (to be met within two years) and long-term ones (to be met over four years).

The Serbian government’s office for EU accession, the main coordinator of all activities in Serbia related to association with the EU, has launched the drafting of a plan of the implementation of recommendations from the EU’s document, to clearly define duties of line ministries and set deadlines for writing regulations.

In a joint statement today, the office and the European Commission’s Delegation to Serbia-Montenegro said that the EC will monitor and assess the progress of reforms in the country and the harmonisation of regulations with European standards and regulations.

Representatives of the Serbian government’s office and the EC Delegation expressed the hope that the European Partnership will give another incentive to the efforts of the Serbian government in the process of stabilisation and association with the EU and strengthen its overall reform capacities.